Stabilized nitrated starch.



UNETE TAT PA N FFEQE.

FLETCHER B. HOLMES, 01* \VOODBURY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOUR-S POWDER COMPANY, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

STABILIZED NITRATED STARGH.

Specification of Letters Patent,

Patented Jan. 7, 1908.

Application filed May 20. 1907- Serial No. 374-530.

To all whom, it may concern:

of New Jersey, have invented a new and use-- ful Improvement in Stabilized Nitrated Starch, of which the following is a'full, clear, and exact description.

The objcctof my invention is to produce T stable nitrated starch.

Nitrated starch may be used as an explosive itself, or preferably may be used as a component part of an exploslve, such as wi'iere it is mixed with sodium nitrate, potas sium nitrate, or some other oxygen carrier, with or without the addition of other mgredlents.

position- \Vhen such nitrated starch adecomposes, which it is liable to do\at ordinary temperatures, it becomes liable to-spontaneous combustion.

I have discovered that I can produce a- In practi e thejreagent is mixed with the nitrated starch produced in the ordinary and well known manner. The mixing may be made 111 any manner to produce a good mix- The dilliculty with nitrated starch is that it is very unstable, being liable to decon1-.

ture. They may be mixed wet or dry and in any kind of a mixer. Preferably I mix the two, in a finely divided powdered condition, in a bowl provided with stirrers or paddles and in an amount preferably from two to five per cent, although larger and smaller amounts can be usedwith success. I have found three per cent. to give good results.

Havingnow fully described my invention,

What I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is: v

1. Ast'able explosive consisting of a mixture-of .nitrated starch and a substitution product of anilin, in which one or more hydrogen atoms of the anilin ring are replaced by univalent elements or radicals, the latter being in such proportion as to stabilize the nitrated stare 2. A stable explosive, consisting of a mixture ofnitrated starch and from two to five per cent. of a substitution product of anilin, in which one or more hydrogen atoms ofthe anilin ring are replaced by' iinivalent elements or radicals.

3. A stable explosive,consisting of a mix ture of nitrated starch and a nitranilin, the latter being in such proportion as to stabilize the nitrated starch. Y

.4. A stable explosive, consisting of a mix" ture of nitrated starch and from per cent. of a nitranilin. f. y

In testimony of which invention, I have hereunto set my hand, at Philadelphia, on this 15th day of May, 1907.

FLETCHER B. HOLMES.

two toiive 'Witnesses M. M. HAMILTON, E. E. WALL. 

